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Arava, Shmuel

Arava, Shmuel


He was born in the city of Abe in 1950 to a family with children, and in 1935 immigrated to Israel with his parents, who settled in the Nahliel neighborhood of Hadera. When his parents moved to work in the settlement organization “Geulim Teiman” in Kfar Yavetz, he stopped his studies at the age of 13 because of the need to help his parents. He borrowed money, bought a handcart and worked as a sufferer in her room. Shmuel settled for half of his meager wages and the other half gave the parents. He completed his education at evening classes. Later he worked as an agricultural laborer, even among Arabs. With the outbreak of the War of Independence following the United Nations General Assembly resolution on the partition of the country into two states, he joined the guard service in the village, trained with the guards and the defenders, and was often devoted to his duties, and despite his youth he was recognized as a well- “The people of the village tried to recruit him for regular service in local garrison, but this role was easy for him because he did not believe that the enemy would dare to attack the village in the Lev of the Jewish settlement, and his Lev was to defend the land Israel “in a real dangerous place” in the Negev Without his parents’ knowledge, he went to Tel Aviv and volunteered for regular army service in one of the Negev Brigade battalions On the first day of the Egyptian invasion, on Friday, May 15, 1948, he fell during an attack on the convoy. A monument in his memory was erected in the military cemetery on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. This fallen hero is a “maklan” – a hero whose burial place is unknown.

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